Malaysian Boeing 777 goes missing

[Dougie Do'ins]

Interesting stuff. Didn't tell us anything new but made some of the stuff about the calculations used easier to understand. 

[Carvalho Diablo]

[stringvest]

Has no-one grassed yet then?

[Russ Atmosphere]

Anyone want to hear my 'planes are small, sea is big' theory?

[General Dryness]

Anyone want to hear my 'planes are small, sea is big' theory?

Give it a shot, we're all listening.

[Russ Atmosphere]

Actually no, I haven't thought it through, don't want to be ridiculed.

[General Dryness]

Fair play. You go and have a think about it.

[xerxes]

The Sunday Times is reporting today that the pilot is the prime suspect. Apparently he had programmed his home flight simulator to include a flight into the Indian Ocean with a landing at on an island with a short runway.

[Dan Vito Corleone]

It has to be pilot suicide.

[Fugitive]

Could have been a depressed goose that had enough of life and flew into an engine.

[BCM]

The Sunday Times is reporting today that the pilot is the prime suspect. Apparently he had programmed his home flight simulator to include a flight into the Indian Ocean with a landing at on an island with a short runway.

 

What like Diego Garcia????

 

Not having pilot suicide that would have come out long before now and likely he would have left messages or letter/phonecalls.

[Bjornebye]

Could have been a depressed goose that had enough of life and flew into an engine.

 

[Spy Bee]

It has to be pilot suicide.

Why would you fly for 7 hours to kill yourself? 

[Bjornebye]

Why would you fly for 7 hours to kill yourself? 

 

He mush have had radio 4 on 

[xerxes]

What like Diego Garcia????

Diego Garcia has a runway long enough for any plane in the world.

[Bjornebye]

Why would it be landed in Diego Garcia? What would be the need for it? If it was a US government act then trust me we would have had a satisfactory story a long time ago and would have forgotten about it. I just don’t see that at all being a viable excuse.

 

It is either stuck nose down in the sea-bed or it blew up and pretty much disintegrated 

[stringvest]

He would see it...

 

 

...or perhaps not.

[bouncebrigade]

I never bought the suicide theory as I saw some good articles that explained how it could easily have been mechanical failure, i.e. he turned back but the smoke knocked them all out.  He had risen to 45,000 feet to try and put out the fire.  They then cruised to their death.

 

However, that Sunday Times story is just plain weird.  Too much of a coincidence surely?  Maybe he aimed for a runway but misjudged it or hadn't enough fuel on board.  Maybe he was an aviation nut as well as an evil nut and wanted to die by pilot suicide (and mass murder).  Maybe he wanted to land on Diego Garcia to make a political point as he was very close friends with the opposition leader of Malaysia who had just had some bad political news.

 

Maybe we will never fucking know.

[The_Goat]

not having the mechanical failure theory myself

 

The horizon programme last week said the transponder was de activated 8 seconds after hand over from malaysian air traffic control, so it was effectively in between being handed over to vietnamese airspace. So into a what 6-7 hour flight? a mechanical fault occurred at the exact point when the plane wouldnt be missed by anyone for a albeit short period of time?

 

I though the horizon programme completely ignored that and now the Sunday Times says the pilot is the main focus. 

[KMD7]

I never bought the suicide theory as I saw some good articles that explained how it could easily have been mechanical failure, i.e. he turned back but the smoke knocked them all out.  He had risen to 45,000 feet to try and put out the fire.  They then cruised to their death.

 

However, that Sunday Times story is just plain weird.  Too much of a coincidence surely?  Maybe he aimed for a runway but misjudged it or hadn't enough fuel on board.  Maybe he was an aviation nut as well as an evil nut and wanted to die by pilot suicide (and mass murder).  Maybe he wanted to land on Diego Garcia to make a political point as he was very close friends with the opposition leader of Malaysia who had just had some bad political news.

 

Maybe we will never fucking know.

 

Looking more and more like the correct assumption

[The Great Jacko]

In the interests of the forum I have consulted with my friends brother who is a former RAF pilot and has spent the last 20 yrs working for Virgin as a pilot - he thinks there was a fire caused by the lithium batteries they had in their cargo - which most airlines refuse to transport. Normal fire theory - pilot changed course but was ultimately overcome by fumes - extinguishers put the fire out and plan carried on until it crashed into the sea.

[VladimirIlyich]

In the interests of the forum I have consulted with my friends brother who is a former RAF pilot and has spent the last 20 yrs working for Virgin as a pilot - he thinks there was a fire caused by the lithium batteries they had in their cargo - which most airlines refuse to transport. Normal fire theory - pilot changed course but was ultimately overcome by fumes - extinguishers put the fire out and plan carried on until it crashed into the sea.

A good theory but if it was a fire i would have thought wreckage would have been visible due to the structure being weakened and impact with the water?

I do accept the ocean is massive but I am surprised at no floating wreckage of any sort.

[clangers]

It's either aliens or pilot suicide.

[stringvest]

or a bet. 

[setreal]

A good theory but if it was a fire i would have thought wreckage would have been visible due to the structure being weakened and impact with the water?

I do accept the ocean is massive but I am surprised at no floating wreckage of any sort.

 

You'd be surprised at a lot of things that occured in the history of the world though.